$100,000 was allocated for the five portraits (including the mayor’s own) to be hung in City Hall
Mayor Brandon Scott allocated $100,000 in taxpayer money for portraits of the last five Baltimore mayors, including two who left office amid corruption scandals, defending it as a way to balance and redress local history.
“When I made the decision to honor the four mayors who preceded me with their official portrait, I knew it would come with criticism,” he wrote in an Instagram post following the unveiling on Saturday of paintings of former mayors Sheila Dixon, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Catherine Pugh and Bernard C. “Jack” Young at the City Hall Rotunda…